1 gb at least. 512 is minimum. anyway now ddram is cheap enough. On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:23, ed tharp wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 22:45 schrieb Anne Wilson: > > > On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 8:35 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > > > Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 21:00 schrieb ed tharp: > > > > > My opinion... > > > > > Forget all the video cards and sound stuff,,, the 128 meg mem > > > > > Video card is over kill, and the AC97 6 channel sound should > > > > > be fine too. > > > > > > > > Agree > > > > > > OK - sound isn't a problem then. So, video card and capture? > > > There are two issues here - vhs and the current camcorder's > > > analogue signal, for which I have been advised to use a Pinnacle > > > DC10+ and V4l, and firewire, which I will need next spring when > > > we buy a new camcorder. I have firewire on this box on the > > > Audigy card, but only a 900 MHz processor (though 512MB RAM). I > > > had thought of adding a firewire card to the new box when I buy > > > the new camcorder. > > > > A DC10+ is good i think. Ermmh this is a mjpeg card isn't it ? > > Sorry for the confusion, i think that is the card that is > > recommended ny the mjpegtools guys as well. For firewire, some new > > boards have that onboard. I have bought a firewire extension card > > for this back then i got my dv camcorder. > > > > > I had planned for 512MB RAM - are you saying that's not really > > > enough? > > > > I would say 512 is ok. , f.i. 256 would definitly be to few ram. > > (my opinion) > > > > > > > The real bottle neck is going to be hard drive write speed. > > > > > during capture that is. my suggestion might be to go with 2 > > > > > different boxes, since capture is one thing and rendering a > > > > > full different set of problems and bottlenecks. capture is > > > > > just as fast and accurate as long as the drive keeps up, > > > > > > > > Do not agree here really. Today you can capture with a midrange > > > > recent machine divx in realtime. > > > > > > > > > and the quality of the capture card and > > > > > signal input is more important than video card. > > > > > > > > Agree absolutly. Depending on the plans how much will be > > > > captured with that box, i would even consider to buy a > > > > dv-capture card. (not a firewire card, but a card that does the > > > > dv-encoding in hardware) > > > > > > Recommemdations, then? > > > > See above, sorry for the confusion. The DC10 should be perfect. For > > exact model i would search trough the mjpeg mailinglist archiv. My > > thought was just that you shouldn't really consider using a tv-card > > or the like for capturing. > > ahhh,,, this has both sides... the difference in price of an old > winTV card vs that DC10 can sure make for the purchase of that extra > 256 meg ram work out easier, and if it was me, I would go for the > ram, if I was only running 256. > if you have a wide pipe, I captured a video since we have been > talking about it. I have recorded with a sony handycam running hi8 > tape, and captured using my wintv card in cinelerra. it might be more > choppy than normal since I set the capture to 29 frames and was > installing software at the same time. > (http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/kayla1.mpg) > > > > > > get all the memory you can stuff on the Mobo (up to around > > > > > 750, really no advantage above that unless you can go greater > > > > > than 2 gigs memory) most folks used to swear you had to have > > > > > fast wide scsi2 hard drives at least, but I am sure IDE udma4 > > > > > or faster, and as large a hard drive cache as available will > > > > > help. > > > > > > > > scsi2 is overkill i would say, the latter you are right again, > > > > as much disk-space as possible. > > > > > > I thought of scsi2, but it's very expensive, so it would have to > > > be worth a lot more. I planned a 7200 120GB disk. It would have > > > very little on apart from the needs of the job. > > > > I have a Samsung 5400 120 Gig with 2MB cache here an plan to buy a > > second one in near future. 120 Gig = 50 hours dvb mpeg2, does not > > know how much you have to calculate for mjpeg and how fast the hd > > has to be. If you plan to make some video dvd i guess you can't get > > enough. scsi2 i think isn't worth the money here. For a definitly > > answer i would ask on mjpegtools mailinglist. > > > > Steffen > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > >___ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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